The LEGO Nexo Knights theme was launched in 2016 as a futuristic castle adventure theme with bright, sharp colors. For two years, it has given fans an interesting assortment of sets and it looks like it will be ending with the latest wave of sets. Zusammengebaut at the 2018 Nuremberg Toy Fair has confirmed that there will be no summer sets planned for LEGO Nexo Knights and this usually means that the theme will be coming to a sad end.
Everything comes to end in one way or another, especially with original LEGO IPs which have about a two year lifespan, LEGO Ninjago being the main exception. To see this theme ending the way it is now is a little disappointing because there was no promotion for it. The official images didn’t come out until long after the other themes were out and the sets basically just showed up in stores. It had lots of potential but apparently it didn’t meet LEGO’s expectations as far as sales goes. It seemed somewhat popular with the younger audience and even the panel at SDCC a few years ago was packed with kids who wanted more of the Nexo Knights story.
With LEGO Nexo Knights ending, it looks like there won’t be another castle type theme for a few years because LEGO likes to rotate themes so what do you want to see take its place? I, for one, am looking forward to another sci-fi space type theme. What about you?
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As a staunch City guy, I probably won’t be too excited no matter what it is. All I really want is for the flesh to remain yellow, which I assume it would. If that is the case, I’ll usually find a set or two I like just for the pieces. That was pretty much my take on Nexo Knights, although I haven’t gotten any NK sets in the past couple of years.
Welp, back to regular castle sets.
my son loves the tie in with the mobile game and the scanning of shields, and pretty much has all the sets, oh well… I think the availability of the cartoons was an issue as disXD is not on all cable plans, and the streaming was not open either
My son liked the Nexo Knights sets but he got into them because of the cartoon as well as wanting a castle type set.
I know we have Star Wars for the most part to use for “space” sets but I would like to see a return to the old classic space sets. Yes, I’m that old. =)
I understand what you want but LEGO Star Wars is just too big for it to work. Between the alien invasion series and mars exploration one before that, it is becoming clear that trying to popularize a LEGO original scifi series in the face of LEGO Star Wars is having a cage match between the Sahara and a snowball.
What I want is classic space, and classic Castle. Actually, I’d like some 2007-ish type castle sets, with evil wizards, skeletons and all. I grew up with those sets, and I still love ’em!
I never cared for these Nexo Knights sets to begin with-mixing Castle with sci-fi just defies the laws of physics, apart from Lego Dimensions.
They gotta change it up a little, i don’t think it’ll be space/futuristic again. Maybe steampunk pirates?
That sounds awesome!
I remember when there was speculation about Nexo Knights and a lot of hopeful theories involved a steampunk theme.
I’ve gotten a few Ninjago sets that seemed steampunk-ish.
I was going say.. That one Ninjago series was purely steampunk pirates.
I loved the Lava Monsters from wave one – and I’m a little sad that we’ll never see a Monstrux minifig – but I’m not really surprised.
Tschüssi, Nexo Knights! 🙁
My son will miss Nexo, but he never seemed as impressed by the sets as he was by the first wave, and the cartoon never held interest for him. We’d both love to see classic castle themes again.
Very excited for the return of Classic Space and Classic Castle!